“…Treatment is generally provided to obese children and their families individually [13,20]. Family-based group treatments, on the other hand, have more beneficial effects than individual treatments, due to factors such as sharing of experience and knowledge, easy problem solution, costeffectiveness, time saving and due to the greater number of children per health professional involved [9,18,19,25,27,30,31,34,35]. However randomized clinical trials published until recently are rare.…”